The editor

Mark Lee Hunter is a founding member of the Global Investigative Journalism Network and the principal author of Story-Based Inquiry: A Manual for Investigative Journalists (2009) and a dozen other books.

Hunter holds a doctorate in Sciences de l'Information from the Université de Paris II/Panthéon-Assas; his doctoral thesis was published by Presses Universitaires de France as Le Journalisme d'investigation en France et aux Etats-Unis. In the past 26 years he has worked as a journalism trainer, lecturer and consultant in 40 countries.  

His features and investigations have been published in The Washington Post, New York Times Magazine, Harper's, Le Figaro, Le Monde Diplomatique, and other leading publications. His most recent book, Pour Sophie et Tous les Autres: Enquêtes pour le droit de choisir sa mort, was published by Editions Pepper/L'Harmattan in 2023. His scholarly work has appeared in Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, American Journalism Review, Columbia Journalism Review, Harvard Business Review, California Managament Review, MIT Sloan Management Review and Corporate Reputation Review.

He has won Investigative Reporters and Editors Awards for foreign correspondance and research on investigative reporting, the Society of Professional Journalists Award for research on journalism, the National Headliners Award for feature writing, the H.L. Mencken Free Press Award for reporting on government abuses, and other awards.

His books on investigative journalism, business models for watchdog reporting and France are available for free or for a modest sum at https://www.storybasedinquiry.com.